Marine & Freshwater Biology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review of Marine Science	27
2	Marine Pollution Bulletin	12
3	Harmful Algae	10
-	Aquaculture	10
-	Aquatic Toxicology	10
6	Fish & Shellfish Immunology	9
-	Microbial Ecology	9
8	ICES Journal of Marine Science	8
-	Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries	8
10	Aquaculture Environment Interactions	7
-	Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science	7
-	Frontiers in Marine Science	7
-	Journal of Applied Phycology	7
-	Journal of Great Lakes Research	7
-	Journal of Marine Systems	7
16	Marine Ecology Progress Series	6
-	Animal Biotelemetry	6
-	Aquatic Botany	6
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	6
-	Coral Reefs	6
-	Journal of Phycology	6
-	Journal of Sea Research	6
-	Marine Environmental Research	6
24	Algae	5
-	Biofouling	5
-	Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences	5
-	Freshwater Biology	5
-	Marine Biology	5
-	Marine Biotechnology	5
-	Estuaries and Coasts	5
-	European Journal of Phycology	5
-	Journal of Coastal Conservation	5
-	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	5
-	Journal of Fish Diseases	5
35	Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems	4
-	Aquatic Sciences	4
-	Environmental Biology of Fishes	4
-	Fishes	4
-	Hydrobiologia	4
-	Journal of Plankton Research	4
-	Marine and Coastal Fisheries	4
-	Marine Mammal Science	4
-	Aquatic Ecology	4
-	Biological Bulletin	4
45	African Journal of Aquatic Science	3
-	Inland Waters	3
-	Journal of Fish Biology	3
-	Journal of Shellfish Research	3
-	Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems	3
-	Marine and Freshwater Research	3

-	Mediterranean Marine Science	3
-	Regional Studies in Marine Science	3
-	Aquatic Invasions	3
-	Cryptogamie Algologie	3
-	Ecology of Freshwater Fish	3
-	Freshwater Science	3
-	Marine Biodiversity	3
-	Phycologia	3
59	Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management	2
-	Botanica Marina	2
-	Diatom Research	2
-	Invertebrate Biology	2
-	Journal of Crustacean Biology	2
-	Journal of Molluscan Studies	2
-	Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research	2
-	New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research	2
-	Scientia Marina	2
-	Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences	2
-	Acta Adriatica	2
-	African Journal of Marine Science	2
-	Bulletin of Marine Science	2
-	Inland Water Biology	2
-	International Review of Hydrobiology	2
-	Journal of Applied Ichthyology	2
-	Lake and Reservoir Management	2
-	Limnetica	2
-	Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology	2
-	Marine Biology Research	2
-	Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective	2
-	Ocean Science Journal	2
-	Plankton & Benthos Research	2
82	Aquatic Mammals	1
-	Clean-Soil Air Water	1
-	Crustaceana	1
-	Ichthyological Research	1
-	Pacific Science	1
-	Phycological Research	1
-	Ciencias Marinas	1
-	Fundamental and Applied Limnology	1
-	Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom	1
-	Russian Journal of Marine Biology	1
-	Thalassas	1
-	Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine	1
94	Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia	0
-	Hidrobiologica	0